Birthday celebration ends in medication.
As is our tradition, wifey's birthday called for a special meal with family. We decided to go out but somewhere closer home so that we could rush back if the kid or weather got real cranky.
Little did we expect crankiness in everything else but the two aforementioned entities. Weather was fantastic and the baby, well, slept like a baby!
We unanimously decided that the theme of the day should be "all things mutton". We rolled things with two mutton starters. The texture, taste indicated some other meat. My father-in-law still insists one dish was not mutton! I am inclined to agree with him on this. Each starter was a half plate tikka. Cost 189/-. Between four of us we got about three or four, 1cubic centimeter of meat each.
The starters were thus termed pathetic. We came here after hearing rave reviews about other Oye! Amritsar franchisees. This one still didn't meat the cut. Main course is the only hope I thought.
On second thoughts I think we should have left then and there but the rain was threatening to come down any minute. We stayed put and ordered the main course - biriyani and mutton raarha.
We thought some raitha would be nice along with the biriyani so we ordered one boondi raitha which was about INR79. Shouldn't the bozo head-waiter have told us that the biriyanis came with raitha anyway. Nope! He was busy managing a grand total of 2 out of 4 occupied tables in this 20 odd table restaurant. We ended up having some 2 litres of raitha on the table. Sad waste of food! Biriyani was decent tasting but again the mutton was elusive. INR250 for a biriyani and not even 3 pieces in it is hard to digest. Ok if no meat at least put rice man! The portion was hilarious. Lesser joints at least make up with some bones. Slowly but surely our mutton theme was turning to multani mitti.
Wifey has too much faith in the poetic descriptions of the menu items. So the "slam dunk" item for the day was the Gaajar halwa. This pretentious place had to spend time and money calling it Gajrela and give some pathetic gyan about it. What we were served was most definitely OLD and re-heated malba. This I can vouch for. One bite and I left it. Wifey didn't. She paid for it later. Also I did not want to spoil the collective mood on a birthday lunch yelling at clueless waiters so I let it be. 109/- down the drain. I wish I'd put the halwa into the drain instead.
Bad eating experiences are commonplace but there is a reason why I'm spewing such venom and that too with topping this time. Here's why. Later that day, birthday girl got the blues. Stomach went for a toss. Dehydration. Nausea. A trip to the hospital. Medication. Two days of absence from work. Heartache for the family. Squarely thanks to the stale stuff served here.
Oh! One final thing! The ambiance is actually decent and walls are completely covered with first class bollywood inspired paintings! Till the food comes the place looked fun. Pity they didn't spend such quality time - training the staff.
Having to take a birthday celebrating wife to a hospital because of the crap served here is just not done. I hope this joint goes to hell where at least I hope the meat is better cooked!
overall
Service: PASSABLE.
The head waiter did ask me how the food was. As I was starting to speak he had already started looking away and was welcoming the new victims. So much for taking feedback.
portions: VERY SMALL.
Don't trust the waiters about the portions. i consulted them every time i ordered something new sounding. I can tell you that they have no clue.
A meal for four which included 2 starters, 4 fresh lime soda, 2 biriyani, 1 mutton gravy without alcoholic drinks came to little above 2K. (3K including hospital expenses.)
advise for owners: DON'T SERVE OLD FOOD
Who the expletive cares whether your paintings are specially commissioned and hand done by an "actual" billboard painter from some remote location and that you have taken pains to bring it all the way down to bengaluru. Customer's primary motive is to eat here so please focus on the food first.
this is no one man rant: read the following as well.
http://bangalore.burrp.com/listing/royal-meenakshi-mall/review/oye-amritsar-suck-dont-dare-eat-there-/39cx_1j3v
http://profiles.burrp.com/user/bamit99
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